When Holden continues insulting him, Stradlater leaves him lying on the floor with a bloody nose. Enraged, Holden punches him, and Stradlater easily wins the fight. When Stradlater returns hours later, he fails to appreciate the deeply personal composition Holden wrote for him about the baseball glove of Holden's late brother Allie who died from leukemia a few years prior and refuses to say whether he slept with Jane. Since Ackley and Mal had already seen the film, they end up just playing pinball and returning to Pencey. That night, Holden decides to go to a Cary Grant comedy with Mal Brossard and Ackley. He is distressed to learn that Stradlater's date is Jane Gallagher, with whom Holden was infatuated and feels the need to protect. Holden and Stradlater normally hang out well together, and Holden admires Stradlater's physique. Later, Holden agrees to write an English composition for his roommate, Ward Stradlater, who is leaving for a date. Holden, who feels sorry for Ackley, tolerates his presence. Spencer offers him advice and simultaneously embarrasses Holden by criticizing his history exam.Д«ack at his dorm, Holden's dorm neighbor, Robert Ackley, who is unpopular among his peers, disturbs Holden with his impolite questioning and mannerisms. Spencer, who is a well-meaning but long-winded old man. After forfeiting a fencing match in New York by forgetting the equipment on the subway, he says goodbye to his history teacher, Mr. Holden has just learned that he won't be allowed back at Pencey after the Christmas break because he had failed all classes except English. Holden recalls the events of a single night during the previous Christmas, beginning at Pencey Preparatory Academy, a boarding school in Pennsylvania. After his discharge within a month, he intends to go live with his brother D.B., an author and war veteran with whom Holden is angry for becoming a Hollywood screenwriter. Holden Caulfield, a depressed 17-year-old, lives in an unspecified institution in California after the end of World War II.

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